FMP Status Check

At the time of the FMP status check at the end of February I was still undecided on what to do for my project. I am happy with my later choice to return to my Solace project, which is most appropriate for me at this time.

1. The aim of the FMP – whats the body of work about.

I’m still not fully settled on an idea but my ideas are:

· Go back to the river project. Do something similar to that that's super focused. The research can still be relevant. It could be the trees where I swim. Eg set up a timer for as long as I swim for. Windy Days would work better. I could choose places that are special to me, like pudding and dip lane. Choose to tell people or not.

· Or go back to the rivers but on film? Could include facts about the water or myths and legends. Film would make it different. Facts would make it informative or environmental, myths would make it fantasy or story like. Facts/myths would work for trees too. - I would have a great time doing it, it would be focused and structured instead of so vague I don't do anything. The entire river project can be primary and secondary research for this, so go back and look at it (done). Artists will be relevant, and the hundreds of digital should help me stick to about 30 film.

· I could try a ‘why do you do this?’ survey, asking people what they do spiritually (wild swimming, dance, church, etc), and why they do it? Eg: ‘I do it for mental wellbeing and a spiritual connection to the natural world around me’ – Hannah, on wild swimming. Use the river images on film to represent the constant change. They are hazy and unfocused (shit) because they represent the unfinished state of the human being. Mention the need for peace and spirituality with recent past and current events – that links to my proposal on solace.

· Or sack all the new ideas off and continue with solace as proposed.

2. The objectives of the FMP –

a. What do you want the work to say about you? I want the work to be about me without it being about me, and have something in it that resonates with others (If I choose the rivers project it’s the human condition, if I choose solace then it’s the need for solace, which is super relevant since covid and ww3)

b. Who is the target audience? (curators, policy makers, potential clients, Art buyers) Ordinary people, passers by, people who decide what goes up in their galleries, fellow students, tutors.

3. Methodology – How you will make the work?

On film – looking at previous shoots and making new work based on what I have learned from the last one – eg I know from my last shoot on film that I need to use higher shutter speeds if I want to freeze the movement of the water.

4. Have you started documenting your research?

(Online Exhibitions, Artist talks, papers read, theories discovered, ideas rejected, concepts evolved)

Yes. I have everything handwritten in my notebook which is the option that best works for me.

5. Are you on course to meet the intended learning outcomes?

Intended Learning Outcomes

On successful completion, you will be able to:

1. Design and execute an in-depth, informed, investigative personal project for public exhibition.

2. Synthesise technical, theoretical and research elements of your subject in support of a mature and critically engaged project.

3. Critically reflect and respond to your on-going creative process.

4. Assemble a professional profile, select and apply promotional skills appropriate to your output.

1. Yes. Luckily both my options have solid research backgrounds – I just need to continue and make new work.

2. Yes? I’m not really sure what this means.

3. Yes – always looking at work already done and research done to inform what I do next, looking at what went wrong, what went right, if I should be going in another direction.

4. No – is this the ‘professional presence’? We haven’t heard much about this side of things so far, I’ve no idea what we’re meant to do for it.